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US pension suit points to potential fiduciary risks: MinterEllison

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... allegations of failure to act with requisite care, skill and diligence. "While trustees' duties are framed in slightly different terms in the US and Australia, they both aim at same outcome - trustees must exercise the care, skill and diligence expected ...

Demand for ethical products strong: Ethical Advisers' Co-Op

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... are campaigning for social change with a focus on investment markets and superannuation as well," Baird said. "It's different from more traditional strategies, and so quite often with our functions and events, we'll work with some of those groups, or ...

Northern Trust makes case for combining quality with ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... on average, an additional 1.4% of alpha annually. Quality adds an uncorrelated set of data because quality analyses different indicators, Hunstad said. Although Northern Trust manages equity portfolios for LUCRF Super and New Zealand Superannuation Fund ...

ASX companies report shared value strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
ASX listed companies are finding commercial and social value to integrated shared value strategies in their business, according to a survey conducted by the Shared Value Project. Helen Steel, executive director, Shared Value Project (photo courtesy ...

KPMG Australia buys Banarra

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... King said. "Many of our clients have challenges in that area, we obviously already provide services to them in many different areas, and with the growing interest/demand in this area, it was, it really is an opportune time to take that deeper capability ...

ESG concerns a challenge for mining projects: MSCI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... general observation, Vernon said that there is a high level of community activism around these issues, in ways that are different than previous environmental work. "What we were calling out in the report was the difference between traditional stakeholder ...

Super boards can add value with ESG focus: BNP Paribas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... strengths," said David Braga, Head of BNP Paribas Securities Services Australia and New Zealand. "In a sense, it's no different to what's going on in general - what it is to be a good corporate governance body, whether it's a board of a listed company ...

Investors consider corporate pay links to climate change goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... play companies, but more towards diversified miners. You can have a conversation around the risk adjusted returns of different types of investments, you can seek to ensure that climate change risks are being factored in, and that's likely to drive the ...

Swiss Re hedges wind risk for Infigen Energy wind farms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... hedge for Infigen Energy was complex because it the portfolio covers sites in three states - Western Australia has a different energy market to New South Wales and South Australia, Summons said. "Western Australia is a completely different market to ...

Government proposes governance changes for super boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... Accreditation Program as a means for developing a pipeline of independent directors. "Running superannuation funds today is very different to 20 years ago given their increased size and complexity around investments, retirement products, financial advice ...